The man then examines the story that the urn tells. It is one of men and gods and beautiful maidens, some pursuing and others pursued. It is one involving music and pure carnal joy. Stanza two begins by describing the music that the instruments painted on the urn produce, which though unheard, is sweeter than any other music, as it plays on, without end, a song that the spirit alone can hear. The music comes from the fair youth painted under the cover of trees, and he shall never stop his playing, nor shall the trees lose their leaves with a change of season.
“rain had called up tall recruits behind the shed,” this quote shows the father cannot destroy them .They differ in the way they felt powerless however as in Nettles the father is feeling powerless because of a physical threat whereas in Harmonium it is an emotional threat of the inevibility of death and unspoken feelings that makes the writer feel powerless. Furthermore they both include the reality of family life as the poems are realistic and the poems, especially Nettles, have both the love and misery of family relationships. In Nettles the love in the poem is the protective instincts of a parent towards his son but the misery is the Nettles that had hurt his child and the fact that being protective isn’t enough to stop him from getting hurt. The realistic relationship in Harmonium is the family resentment and frustration from a son to his father. We can tell that the writer resents and is frustrated by his father as it says “and he being him can’t help but say.......... and I, being me” which shows that he is frustrated at their relationship.
Ramanjot Dhillon Mr. Desjardins ENG4U0-G February 12th, 2014 Deception and Truth Although humans look to love, being naive will only bring disappointment and grief. In the short story "Was it a Dream? ", Guy de Maupassant tries to implement the idea that nobody can be trusted. To begin with, the protagonist (who remains unnamed) is a man in the midst of grieving the loss of his partner. We are quickly acknowledged to the fact that the man is a very loving and caring person, and so was his wife.
John Keats is an example of a man who is trying to understand the language of art, which he questions throughout his entire poem. Art can come in a wide variety of forms, and John Keats is trying to interpret a visualized story painted upon the urn. While it is said that a photograph can be worth a thousand words, Keats is able to prove that a painting upon an old Grecian piece of pottery can say just as much. He describes the urn’s visualization of its stories as a way to tell “a flowery tale more sweetly than our rhyme” (Keats 4). However, he is not fully capable of discerning the meaning behind the story being told, nor can he discern any of the other paintings upon the urn completely.
Ode on a grecian urn is a poem by John Keats that uses many sound devices to help drive the point of his poem. A few examples of alliteration are "Thou foster-child of silence and slow time, Sylvan historian, who canst thus express" which when in reference to the urn shows us that this object is timeless and still. As he continues with this thought "A flowery tale more sweetly than our rhyme" it really ties together that this urn, although silent and still, will share a story greater than any poetry. Another example of this is "Of marble men and maidens overwrought" which is in the last stanza of the poem. It portrays that the images on the urn lack warmth and feel cold, which he later refers to as "Cold Pastoral!"
Bottom, for the sake of the trick, was unfortunately transformed into a human with an ass’ head. The love-juice had the effect of blinding Titania’s judgment and also the effect of making her think that everything about the first creature she sees, in this case, Bottom, is beautiful and perfect. When Bottom wakes Titania with his singing, he is showered with undeserving praises from Titania as she renders him an angel who “wakes me from my flow’ry bed”. Even as she sees him, she implores him to sing again as “mine ear is much enamoured of thy note”. She ends off her initial praises with a conclusive note, that “on the first view, to say, to swear, I love thee”.
Women begin to think that they will find a perfect man that will hand them the world, that they should dedicate themselves to finding this man, and that they deserve an elaborate story full of passion and desire. This develops conflict with reality, because love stories like the ones we see in the movies are scarce. In the real world, love is tougher, flawed, and it might not end up the way we planned it to. In A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare, Helena is obsessed with attaining Demetrius' love. She chases him up to the point of exhaustion, and as much as he tries to avoid her she is persistent.
However the failure of Hardy’s pilgrimage, similarly to Orpheus’, is inevitable, as Hardy is visiting the place in order to leave his courtship but by looking back at the hillside Hardy experiences the precious memory of his angelic wife Emma. Hardy also experiences the journey of reminiscing and how idealistic and romantic their relationship was, “Something that life will not be balked of”. The adjective ‘Fading’ suggests increasing distance and fading light and therefore the lessening importance of present reality. The word “Fading” also suggests the time f day being dusk, which has connotations of death. The words “drizzle…bedrenches” are negative onomatopoeias which present use of pathetic fallacy to suggest a sombre and melancholic mood to the poem.
Desdemona takes one look at the hunk of burning love that is Othello, his virility and manliness, and she is swept off her feet. But is this a true love? She speaks so fondly of him, yet hardly knows him. As she defends her newly born love for Othello, Desdemona says (among other things), "My downright violence, and storm of fortunes,/ May trumpet to the world. My heart's subdu'd/ Even to the very quality of my lord./ I saw Othello's visage in his
Compare how a characters voice is created in “My Last Duchess” and ONE other poem. The characters’ voices in “My Last Duchess” and “The River God” are created in very similar but also different ways. In both poems we can see that the characters are created as quite lonely in, “My Last Duchess” and “The River God”. The writer of “My last Duchess” uses euphemism to display his loneliness to the reader. “This grew; I gave commands; then all smiles stopped together.” This quote creates a sense of loneliness to the reader seeing as the speaker is saying that “all smiles stopped” implies that the person who smiled is no longer alive but now dead.